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  • By Elizabeth King |
  • February 28, 2026
Manatee ATV manufacturer makes move to expand dealer network

Recreative Industries signed a manufacturer’s representative agreement with TRL Outdoors LLC.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
  • By Elizabeth King |
  • May 27, 2026
Interior designer opening showroom in Sarasota

Mindy Webb Design is leasing space for a design studio and showroom near Burns Court.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • November 22, 2010
Entrepreneur of the Decade

The Business Review will crown a business champion for the 2000s.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • October 7, 2021
Britney Mroczkowski, 32

BTI Partners, vice president of retail development

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 10, 2008
Signs of the time

With sales down 30%, a GulfCoast entrepreneur is getting creative - and contrarian - about makingit through the tough times. He'simposed a no-layoff rule, for instance. And he's tripled his marketing budget.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • December 2, 2016
Tech giant

The CEO of one of the largest companies in the region, Tech Data, has even bigger dreams. Think Amazon.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • November 12, 2009
Cracking the Code

While legislators look for a science-based, politically acceptable plan for oil drilling, new technology for extracting natural gas is aligning with state and federal energy policy to potentially unlock Florida waters and the eastern Gulf.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • August 23, 2019
With innovative home plans, builder caters to evolution of 'single-family' housing

The Chicago firm has capitalized on a burgeoning trend in the region: multigenerational housing. New challenges await, including a battle for land.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 6, 2009
Good times around the corner?

Two prominent chief executives in the Sarasota-Manatee area are leading the recession-could-be-hitting bottom brigade.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2010
Church buys large Teleflex building

Missouri-based Faith Life Church purchased the 82,010- square-foot Teleflex building.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2010
Sun Hydraulics delivers results

Net income rose 450% overall relative to last year's first quarter.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 5, 2013
Slice of paradise for sale

Prospective buyers from as far away as Egypt and London have expressed interest in buying the Crow's Nest, a 1-acre island at the mouth of the Homosassa River, near the Gulf of Mexico.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 26, 2012
Largo investors buy building, lease to HydroLogic Distribution

The price equated to $41 per square foot.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • July 27, 2012
Windsor Senior Living sells Cape Coral Windsor

The price equated to $255,472 per unit.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • April 5, 2021
Heating and air company wins work at luxury hotels

Cortez Heating & Air’s agreement with the properties runs through March 2024.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 8, 2020
Telemarketer to serve four years in prison for health care fraud

Land O' Lakes, Florida, telemarketer Samuel Friedman, has been sentenced to four years in prison for a health care sales scheme that defrauded Medicare-aged people and involved bribes paid to doctors.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 4, 2019
Health care group names attorney to board of directors

Robert Mino is a registered patent attorney.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • February 8, 2022
Beachfront estate with unique feature sells for $10.4 million

The sale was represented by the top-producing team affiliated with Coldwell Banker Realty.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • September 11, 2018
Crab scam nets charges for area man

Robert Lee Humphrey Jr. of Hillsborough County, Florida, faces multiple charges related to his alleged role in a crab fisher investment scam that defrauded investors of $800,000.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 30, 2016
Wheeling and dealing

Many community banks have been hit with a double-whammy in the battle for profitability: low growth in loans mixed with a high amount of regulations.

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